averted

英 [əˈvɜːtɪd]

美 [əˈvɜːrtɪd]

v.  防止，避免(危险、坏事); 转移目光; 背过脸
avert的过去分词和过去式

过去式：averted　

COCA.32536

柯林斯词典

• VERB 避免;阻止;防止
  If youavertsomething unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
  1. Talks with the teachers' union over the weekend have averted a strike...
     周末与教师工会举行的谈判避免了一场罢工。
  2. A fresh tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday.
     昨天险些酿成一场新的悲剧。
• VERB 转移（目光等）
  If youavertyour eyes or gazefromsomeone or something, you look away from them.
  1. He avoids any eye contact, quickly averting his gaze when anyone approaches...
     他避免任何眼神接触，一有人靠近就把目光迅速移开。
  2. He kept his eyes averted.
     他的眼睛滴溜溜乱转。

双语例句

• Had they done that before we could have averted a lot of this crisis.
  如果他们之前就这么做，我们就能在很大程度上避免这场危机。
• Talks with the teachers 'union over the weekend have averted a strike
  周末与教师工会举行的谈判避免了一场罢工。
• The good news is that the worst can still be averted.
  好消息是仍有可能避免出现最糟糕的情况。
• And struck a deal which averted military action.
  他们达成了一个协议，可以避免军事行动。
• Disaster was averted when the pilot took action to stop the plane from crashing.
  飞行员采取行动使飞机没有坠毁，避免了大难。
• A Roosevelt in the White House from1909to1913might well have averted the disastrous rupture that occurred in1912.
  如果罗斯福1909至1913年在白宫的话，1912年发生的灾难性分裂可能会避免。
• Had it not done so, some of the banking disasters of 2007-8 might well have been averted.
  若非如此，我们很可能可以避免2007-08年的某些银行业灾难。
• In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, China launched a massive stimulus plan and largely averted a recession.
  2008年金融危机爆发后，中国推出了一个庞大的经济刺激计划，基本上避免了经济衰退。
• Regulators and politicians have tried to do some of the things that might have averted the last crisis.
  监管者和政界人士试图采取一些本可能会避免上次危机的举措。
• Accident can be averted by careful driving.
  谨慎行车可以避免事故。